Factor is a positively amazing language that I've checked out in the past. It has virtually no step-by-step tutorial-like information to teach you the language so you are forced to read source code and raw documentation. While it's documented thoroughly I can't bring myself to try to learn it to any decent extent without some kind of tutorial or something.
On Apr 10, 4:32 am, Martial Boniou <hond...@gmx.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I confirm. Factor deserves a look: it's a genuine combination of the > Common Lisp world (homoiconic, macros, CLOS) and the Smalltalk RAD > created by mixing Self and Forth. Plus there's concurrency support and > native code compilation. > I always liked concatenative programming I discovered 15 years ago > with HP RPN calculator and PostScript (on NeXT). I think the data > first design of stack-based languages is good for XP. For altaic > languages' speakers (korean, japanese, turkish), it's near their way > to construct sentences (like Smalltalk for SVO group). Writing > R.E.P.L. is more beautiful than writing (L (P (E (R)))) because you > don't have to look at the whole code to find out the data (near the R > here) but you start with it (you know what? before knowing how?). > (I say that but I am a bit addict to prefix ASTs by force of habit > with SBCL or Clojure.) > > -- > Martial > > At Fri, 10 Apr 2009 17:05:21 +0930, > > Antony Blakey wrote: > > > On 10/04/2009, at 4:43 PM, CuppoJava wrote: > > > > Hi everyone, I was browsing through webpages and the language Forth > > > caught my eye. Reading through it's supposed advantages it sounded > > > very interesting, and I was wondering if anyone here has any > > > experience with it, and can comment. > > > > I'm asking on the Clojure forum instead of the Forth forum because I > > > agree with the programming values that Clojure emphasizes, and would > > > like to hear opinions from people with similar values to myself. > > > > I'm most interested in it's productivity aspect. (ie. how quick can > > > I get real work done) > > > If you are interested in Forth you should probably check Factor at > >http://factorcode.org/ > > > Antony Blakey ------------- CTO, Linkuistics Pty Ltd Ph: 0438 840 787 > > > It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick > > society. > > -- Jiddu Krishnamurti --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
